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TAP Activities

February 2024

Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Taiwan 2024

On Friday, 1 February 2024, TAP member Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn visited the TAP Team at Ruhr-University Bochum. Together with Prof. Dr. Moll-Murata and other experts, she took part in a panel analyzing and discussing the recent presidential and parliamentary elections in Taiwan.  

For more information regarding the event, please click here

November 2023

DVCS XXXIV Annual Meeting

TAP members Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn, Dr. Thomas Fliß, and Dr. Yu-Yin Hsu attended the DVCS XXXIV annual meeting in Erlangen on 25 November 2023 for new events of the TAP project.
This group presentation aimed to introduce a circular Taiwan Lecture Seminar in 2024 and invite scholars to an in-depth discussion of issues related to Taiwan Studies. Furthermore, during the panel of literature, Dr. Thomas Fliß presented his latest study "Reimen außerhalb der Norm - Besonderheiten im Reimverhalten des Taiwanesischen". 

October 2023

Presentation and Discussion in Taiwan

Dr. Hsu has been appointed as a visiting researcher at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan, Taiwan to conduct a project entitled "Enlightenment and Reflection under Colonial Medical Education: Focusing on the Writing Records of Physicians in Colonial Taiwan" from July to December 2023. She presented her current research progress in TAP and had a discussion with other researchers at the workshop on 20 October 2023.

July 2023

Research Trip to Taiwan and Japan

Dr. Hsu is currently in Taiwan and Japan to research the influence of medical education in Taiwan under Japanese rule. During her stay, she visited the National Taiwan Library, National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Academia Sinica, and Changhua Senior High School.

Agreement with Changhua Senior High School

Dr. Hsu’s research focuses particularly on Dr. Takagi Tomoe 高木友枝 (1858–1943). Dr. Takagi, the second director of the Government Medical College of Taipei 臺灣總督府醫學校 (1902–1915), laid the foundation for a medical and hygienic system in Taiwan. Dr. Takagi wrote a medical book entitled “Die hygienischen Verhältnisse der Insel Formosa” (“The Hygienic Conditions of Formosa Island”) in German. This book presents the earliest work on disease prevention in Taiwan, including valuable photographs. Currently, over 200 of his relics are collected in the Takagi Tomoe’s Memorial Collection 高木友枝紀念典藏館 in Changhua Senior High School 彰化高中.
TAP is very pleased to cooperate with Changhua Senior High School to evaluate these relics and make them publicly available through a database.

June 2023

EATS Conference 2023

From 26–28 June 2023, the TAP team participated in the EATS Conference at SOAS University of London.

February 2023

Lecture on the Occasion of the 228 Peace Memorial Day on the Topic "A Pioneer of Press Freedom in Taiwan"

On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 from 2–4 p.m. s.t., Dr. Hsu and Mr. Wu gave a lecture on the topic "A Pioneer of Press Freedom in Taiwan" 台灣言論自由的先鋒 at Ruhr University Bochum.

The topics of the presentations were:

  • Voice of the People: Strike News in Taiwan People News
    Hsu Yu-Yin 徐郁縈 (Postdoc Fellow of the TAP project)
  • Lin Mosei (1887–1947) and People News: A Postwar Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in Taiwan
    Wu Kuan-Wei 吳冠緯 (Doctoral student of the Faculty of East Asian Studies)

Afterwards there was the possibility for the audience to ask questions and to discuss.

The talk "A Pioneer of Press Freedom in Taiwan" was recorded and can be viewed on Youtube here.

TAP Meeting in Trier

On Friday, 17 February, Dr. Hsu and Prof. Moll-Murata were in Trier for a meeting with the TAP team there.


January 2023

TAP Internal Workshop in Tübingen (10–13 January 2023)

In January, an internal workshop was held in Tübingen. For more information see Workshops.


December 2022

TAP at DVCS in Kiel

At the 33rd Annual Meeting of the German Association for Chinese Studies (Deutsche Vereinigung für Chinastudien, DVCS) at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 9–11 December 2022, Thomas Fliß and Josie-Marie Perkuhn gave the following papers:

  • 10 December 2022
    Dr. Thomas Fliß (Trier)
    Darstellung und Kritik von Umweltveränderungen in taiwanesischsprachiger Umweltlyrik
  • 11 December 2022
    Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn (Trier) und Dr. Tania Becker (Berlin)
    Klimawandel als Chance: Innovative Ansätze zur Energieversorgung in China und Taiwan

November 2022

Welcome Dr. Hsu Yu-Yin 徐郁縈!

The TAP team gladly announces that Dr. Hsu Yu-Yin from Tainan has arrived on 29 November 2022. Dr. Hsu is now taking up the position of TAP postdoc project leader in TAP's Bochum sub-project "Erziehung als Motor der Moderne" (Education as a Motor of Modernity).


October 2022

TAP Workshop in Trier: Mapping Research on Taiwan (4–7 October 2022)

In October, a workshop on the topic "Mapping Research on Taiwan" was held in Trier. For more information see Workshops.


September 2022

TAP Online Meeting with Qualiservice

On 8 September 2022, the entire TAP team met online with Dr. Jan-Ocko Heuer from the Research Data Center (RDC) Qualiservice. Qualiservice offers possibilities for archiving, curating and providing qualitative research data of any kind and field. Dr. Heuer presented Qualiservice's various services and gave many helpful approaches to consider when planning a database.


August 2022

TAP at EACS in Olomouc, Czech Republic

At the 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) at the University of Olomouc (Czech Republic) from 24–27 August 2022, the TAP group presented a joint hybrid panel chaired by Prof. Christian Soffel, on "Taiwan's Innovative Roles in the Global Megatrends: An Interdisciplinary Approach"

24 August 2022

  • Josie-Marie Perkuhn, Innovation Hub Taiwan: Asian's Pioneer in Facing Global Challenges
  • Hung-yi Chien, Pioneering in Modern Pedagogy: The Modernization of Teaching Foreign Language by the Normal School at Taihoku (Taipei)
  • Thomas Fliß, Rhyme Features and Rhyme Behaviour Changes in Taiwanese Rhyme Literature – Exemplified by Selected Taiwanese Rhyme Literature Genres
  • Amélie Keyser-Verreault, Taiwan As Pioneer in Professionalizing Traditional Postnatal Care Practices: Investing in Human Capital from the Beginning through Postnatal Care Centres

May 2022

TAP Internal Workshop in Trier (4–6 May 2022)

In May, our first internal workshop took place in Trier. For more information see Workshops.


April 2022

TAP at EATS in Cyprus

From 6–8 April 2022, the 19th annual conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) was held at the University of Central Lancashire Cyprus Campus in Cyprus. The TAP team was represented by Dr. Josie- Marie Perkuhn and Dr. Thomas Fliß in presence and Dr. Chien Hung-yi and Dr. Amélie Keyser-Verreault online, presented their first joint publication “Taiwan: Melting Pot and Innovation Hub”. The conference provided an excellent opportunity to present the TAP project to an academic audience and get in contact with colleagues from Taiwan studies for deepen exchange and building a network.


© Jewel Lo and Jens Damm

March 2022

First Publication of the Project Group TAP: Taiwan - Melting Pot and Innovation Hub

The collected essays can be downloaded as PDF here. For more information on TAP's publications, see here.

TAP Meeting in Bochum

On 25 March 2022, the TAP project leader Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn came to the Ruhr University Bochum. Discussed was the practicability of possible databases and the best way to realize them. Present were Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata, Dr. Chien Hung-yi, Dr. Josie-Marie Perkuhn and (not in the picture) Tamina Renner.


February 2022

First Meeting of the Project Group TAP at Ruhr University Bochum on 11 February 2022

On Friday, 11 February 2022, the first face-to-face TAP meeting took place at the Ruhr University Bochum. "Taiwan as a Pioneer" (TAP) is a supra-regional BMBF project of the Ruhr University Bochum in cooperation with the universities of Trier and Tübingen. The goal is to investigate Taiwan's role as an innovator in the dynamics of global megatrends and to contribute to the promotion of structural strengthening and networking of Taiwan research in the field of sinology.

Present were (from left to right) Dr. Thomas Fliß and the project and research coordinator Dr. rer. pol. Josie-Marie Perkuhn from Trier, Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata, head of the Taiwan Research Unit at the Ruhr University Bochum, Dr. Chien Hung-yi, head of the Bochum research project and the research assistant Tamina Renner.

On the agenda was, among other things, the translation of the project title into Chinese. After extensive discussion, the choice fell on Taiwan zuo touzhen/Tâi-uân Tsò Thâu-tīn: Zai quanqiu dashi tiaozhan zhong de difang chuangxin 台灣做頭陣:在全球大勢挑戰中的地方創新 (Taiwan as a Pioneer – Local Innovation in the Dynamics of Global Megatrends).

Furthermore, dates for the first workshops were set and the methodological handbook was determined.